Having meals three times a day with my family. Hardly go out for diners nor buy frozen and processed food. Baking anything and everything, making pastas/Chinese steam buns etc. from scratch as much as I can. So as to quest for genuine, yummy and healthy food, I am cooking and cooking and cooking.
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This menu is Jun's favourite. Before seasoning, boil pork and cool them down to get rid of the extra lard so that it can be tasted more light.

Served with spinach and boiled egg.

Grated Yamato-imo and bamboo Miso- soup

Taro's rate:★

As he didn't eat anything, I pretended to cry over him on purpose. Then he got a little bit embarrassed and started having Kakuni and sipped at the soup a little bit. But he was not willing to eat them. :(

When you make up your mind to bake something, I really recommend to bake biscotti. You can bake it quick and easily. Plus this is quite good for babies as a teether. Just mix all ingredients and bake it. That's all!

Preheat the oven to 180℃. Mix all ingredients together until incorporated. Place the oven sheet on the oven pan. The sticky dough first shaped into a rectangular shape(10cm× 20cm× 2cm). Sprinkle with the flour on the surface. Bake it for 20 minutes. Cut them into 10 equal.

Heat the oven to 150℃. Bake them again for 20 minutes or until firm to touch.

As for the rice croquette, of course, the white rice would be fine as well. But the texture of brown rice is much better than white ones. Make sure that season salt and pepper well. I regretted I should have seasoned it more.

Taro's rate:★

Eventually he had one bite only. Sigh..... But he had one "Dora-yaki"(bean -jam pancakes). Especially he was care for the cake. ( he tried to get rid of the bean-jam.)

Mar 22, 2010

The reason I said them "oriental" is that I used lots of spices for them. It might be Morocco taste. ( I haven't been there though. Just my guess.)

Kaorinskiee salad

Boiled "petit vert",which is crossed with Brussel sprouts, kale and Chinese cabbage Salad. Served with boiled egg with anchovy. Sprinkle with curry and mustard dressing. Inspired to make it by Madam Masako salad.

Braised orange chicken

Adapted from Otsuki Chihiro's recipe. She is an expert of Spanish food.

Simmered Chicken drum and thigh with sliced lemon and oranges plus a head of garlic! Those citrus should be organic so that we can eat their skins as well. Season salt, black pepper and wine vinegar. Simmer for 1 hour. After simmering leave them by the next day so that it would be more tasty.

In regard to her cookbook, she used red wine, Italian parsley, but since I don't have them, I used white wine and coriander instead. Then I came up with adding coriander seed and paprika.

Reviewed my previous Italian cooking class. I added some chopped onion when braised. Make sure that the "pancetta" should be genuine one. Otherwise, it will never taste good.

Pain de Campagne from "signifiant_signifie".

This "pain de campagne" is from "signifiant_signifie". I tried to taste various breads at the shop(actually I threw away more than 5000yen for the bakery. I think I am crazy.).

This bakery shop is quite famous for selling yummy and genuine breads. Actually they are very gorgeous and enough yummy, but as far as "pain de campagne", I prefer my baking one. Is it challenging saying?

When you want to buy some breads at the shop, I recommend "chabata" and "Pain de mie". Those two breads are the best ever at the shop. I never recommend "croissant". They're too much butter. Yes, as if I ate butter not croissant.

Taro's rate; none

He had breastfeed milk and two-bite sizes bread only. However, at lunch time, he spontainiously had wonton stuffed shrimp,pork minch, and coriander.

Mar 21, 2010

Jun came back from Kyoto today and got some lunch boxes. This box is for cherry blossom viewing. It's very spring feeling. Cute indeed. Taro was so curious that he snatched the chunky omelet and tasted it. When he feels it's yummy, he taps his cheek.

Finally his fever passed away!!! But on Tuesday, we will have to go to see a doctor again to take echography if it is something wrong with his heart. If it finds nothing, it can be said that he is cured of the cryptogenic fever. If it does, he will have to go into the hospital right away.

As his doctor said, even if he got a Kawasaki disease, it would very mild case. I am a little bit relieved.

Mar 19, 2010

Today, Made "Strozzapreti" from scratch. Literally meaning is " to strangle the priest" in Italian. It's quite aggressive expression! In a sense, it's very impolite naming.

There're two beliefs about the naming. One is that the shape of pasta can choke a person. The other is that they're so delicious that people eat them too much and are about to choke on them.

This pasta is origin from Emilia-Romagna. There're many communists in this area and the people have quite broad-minded to accept different culture and people. That's why this provocative naming is used in the area. Very interesting story, isn't it?

All'arrabbiata sauce is very beautiful. I like Italian red pepper.

Another meal was braised peas with panchetta. Braised them for around 40 minutes. Very soften. It also goes with short pasta!

Taro-san has been a fever since the day before yesterday. Every night the fever rises and in the morning it passes away.

As his doctor said, "Not only the flu but also something wrong with his stomach. It's natural that he has no appetite. You don't need to force him to eat. Breads, cheese, cracker and bananas, they're gently fine.

When we have a stuffy nose, we cannot taste propely. You may try to have a tea/coffee with pinching your nose! It's going to be disgusting!"

See. He unconsciously chooses foods he needs when he gets sick. There's a reason for him not to eat.

Preheat the oven to 190℃. Butter on the casserole. Place the apples and apricot.Make cream sauce. Just mix together until incorporated. Pour the sauce in the casserole. Sprinkle butter on the batter. Bake it for 40 minutes. Serve it piping hot!

Kaori's rate:★★★★★

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Living in TOKYO.
Questing for tiny happiness such as making rhubarb jam, fascinated the colour of it, spreading the jam on the bread I've just baked, and sharing the joy with my family with hot gingered milk tea.....
Piling up these sort of things more, our family tie is getting closer..... That's my life!
This blog is for recording our daily meals and practicing my English writing. If you read the post and found some mistakes I made, please feel free to correct them. Thanks!